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Helix and Drugs: Snails for Western Health Care From Antiquity to the Present
The land helix, or snail, has been used in medicine since antiquity and prepared according to several formulations. This historical report traces the understanding of their properties from the time of Hippocrates, who proposed the use of snail mucus against protoccle and Pliny who thought that the s...
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Oxford University Press
2005
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1062150/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15841274 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ecam/neh057 |